The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-07
CASUALTIES.

Jan 4-Great havoc by storms and foods il
portions OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Jan. 9-Terr.bie accident On Wilmington s
Northern railroad at Wilmington. Del; tire,
bodies burned and several men injured.
Jan. 10-(ireat storm en- the Atlantic coast o.
the Eastern States; several wrecks and loss o.
life.
Jan. I3-Tweiye men buried by caving-in OF ar
ore IA ne az Alhurtis. Pa.
Jan. 23-Jackson thiich.) poor-house burned
To ground: five lives lost.
Feb. 10--Oae hundred Thousand head Of cat
tie and one hundred persons frozen to death
within a radius Of one hundred miles of Dodge
City. Kan, during the winter.
FEB. l6-OHiug to foods in Boston and vicn
lily more than ten thousand people were home
less; damage to property sGOo,Go
Mar. 1.-THE steamer Oregon. with eight hun
Cred passengers on board. wrecked by colliding
with a schooner. twenty-five miles from New
York. All on board saved. Vessel Valued at
Sj.251,91.
May lI-Cyclone at Kansas City. No. by
which twenty nine lives were lost. twenty ger
sons injured, AMI thousands of dollars worth OF
property. including the court house. destroyed.
May ia cyclone devastated HiilianlspOrt
and Attica. Ind. bridge at the latter place be-
ing destroyed. and several persons killed Also
the villages OF Nicy Springs and Green Ridge.
No.. and Dayton and Zenia- O., suffered serious
~. At Xeria nearly one hundred houses swept
away and thirty-foar lives lost.
June "A train fell through a trestle at ST.
STEPHENS Station, S. c.: six persons killed,
and many others fatally wounded
Aug. ia dozen men lost their lives while
EXPOSITION.
Aus. 2l--Fifty lives lost during the recent
storms in Texas.
Aug :9-The powderragazine of Latin &
Rand near Brighton Park. IL, was struck by
lightning anc exploded; one man killed and SIX
Others fatally mi ired.
Aug. 3I-Seyere earthquake shocks along the
Atlantic coast to the Mississippi: r,ost severe
at Charleston, 5. c., a large portion of which
was destroyed and great suffering and destitu-
tfon existed amoIg people. Ninety deaths re-
suited.
Sept. -four men killed and seventeen badly
aniured while tearinS down building at Indian
Bpolis, Ind.
Sept 14-An excursion train collided with
freight, on the Nickel Plate road, near Silver
Greek, y. Y: twelve persons killed and four
Oct. Thirty persons killed and many wound
ed by boiler explosion on the steamer La Mas
cote, near Cape Girardeau.
Oct. IA hurricane swept along the Gulf
coast of Texas, rendering hundreds of people
destitute.
Oct. 14-F1oods swept away the town of sa-
ciDe Pass and other towns il Texas and over
Two hundred persons were drowned.
Oct. 2s-The limited express train on the st.
Ianl railroad ran into an open switch near Rio.
/. u Is, and thirty persons killed Brakeman
Wells held responsible and arrested.
Nov. ls-Tne schooners McpeSaunee and Mar
trette wrecked OF Frankfort, Mich, and seven
teen lives lost. The steamer Lucerne lost in
Lake Huron, her crew OF nine men perishing.
Total loss by gale, S7ss,0OO
Dec Bark Mary Agnes de Costa wrecked
fourteen persisted.
Dec. 6-Founderng eff schooner Edith of
south coast New Foundland, by which the crew
Cthrteen persons) persisted.
Dec. 9-Locomotive explosion az Jersey Shore,
Pa, killed four men.
Dec. I0-Total number of vessels lost on
lakes during past season, So; value, S2,0,U, 90.
Lives lost, 1tS
Dec. Is-Burning at Point Coupe. La, OF J.
NJ White. finest boat on Mississippi river.
Over forty lives lost. Loss, flS1.Ns.
Dec. lS--BurninC of Calumet Hotel a. Pipes
ton. MINI: A. S. circuit, Baptist clergyman,
killed by falling walls.
Dee. Unnatural gas explosion ct KokOrno.
Ind, injured thirtyfy persons, twelve Of them
seriously - Whaling bark Atlantic wrecked OH
coast of San Francisco and twenty five Of crew
lost.
Dec. 2a-Whiie foolirg with pistol thought
to be rnloaded, a boy named Ora Curtis fatally
shot James Adams. at Bunker Hill, Ind.
Dec. 2l-Five men fatally injured by falling
rock in a coal mine near Scranton. Pa.
Dec. 2.-The opera house and city hall at
Cheboygan Mich, destroyed and two prison
ers in the lock-up burned TO death.